Yunus Qanuni

Yunus Qanuni
یونس قانونی
1st Vice President of Afghanistan
In office
11 March  29 September 2014
PresidentHamid Karzai
Preceded byMohammed Fahim
Succeeded byAbdul Rashid Dostum
Speaker of the House of the People
In office
7 December 2005  6 December 2010
DeputyMirwais Yasini
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byAbdul Rauf Ibrahimi
Minister of Interior Affairs
In office
13 November 2001  24 June 2002
PresidentHamid Karzai
Preceded byAbdur Razzaq Akhundzada
Succeeded byTaj Mohammed Wardak
Personal details
Born1957 (age 6768)
Panjshir, Kingdom of Afghanistan
Political partyNew Afghanistan Party

Yunus Qanuni (Dari: یونس قانونی, born on 10 May 1957 in Panjshir Valley) is an Afghan politician who was Vice President of Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik, Qanooni is the leader of the Afghanistan e Naween (New Afghanistan) political party and former Speaker of the House of the People (the lower house of parliament or Wolesi Jirga).